Why Security Services Reform Should Be a Mandatory Part of EU Membership Negotiations?

What are the mechanisms of capturing security-intelligence services, how are they used for capturing other sectors and why this problem deserves greater attention within eurointegrations – these are the topics of the discussion that will be organized on June 4, 2019, starting at 10:00 at the Media Centre (Grand Hall, 2nd floor, Terazije 3, Belgrade)..

Discussion about following issues will also be opened at the event:

• What can we learn from the example of security-intelligence services misuse in North Macedonia?
• Why did the security-intelligence service in Montenegro escape reform, even though this state has become a NATO member and is advancing in EU membership negotiations?
• Is the development of special reports (so-called Priebe report) the most suitable way for addressing the politization in the most important sectors in Montenegro and Serbia?
• What are the consequences of neglecting the security-intelligence services reform in the process of eurointegrations and why it is necessary to include it in the areas that are the subject of negotiations and form the basis EU’s assessment of the progress of the countries in the region?

Answers to these questions will be offered by:                                                                      

• Magdalena Lembovska, Center for European Strategies – EUROTHINK, North Macedonia
• Dina Bajramspahic, Institute Alternative, Montenegro
• Predrag Petrovic, Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, Serbia

Moderator: BCSP Researcher Jelena Pejic.

Translation to English is provided.  

This discussion is supported by European Fund for the Balkans within the regional program Think and Link, through the project “Watching the Watchers: Towards Accountable Intelligence Services in the Western Balkans”, which is jointly implemented by Belgrade Centre for Security Policyfrom Serbia, Center for European Strategies – EUROTHINKfrom North Macedonia and Institute Alternative from Montenegro.